Word: mother
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor F. G. Peabody gave an interesting talk before the Christian Association last evening on recent discoveries made at Jerusalem by which the probable locality of the site of the Crucifixion has been ascertained. The old traditions about this site were that it was discovered by the mother of the Emperor Constantine. who learned through a vision. Excavations were made, the story tells, and three crosses were round. The cross of Christ was pointed out by a sick woman, who was healed by touching it. The site as thus determined was within the second wall of the city, that which...
...made it seem as if perhaps the standard of the Advocate had permanently fallen, but with the issue of today comes a promise of better things, - a promise which it is to be hoped will not prove to be delusive. It would be indeed a pity if the "old mother" should grow feeble before she fairly reaches her prime, and should forget that she had once been quite a good-looking girl...
...personality which saves men is often the object of merely earthly love, the mother or father, but in extremity. souls need a greater personality than this The friendship of Christ furnishes the greatest power for making men approach perfection. In Christ men may lose themselves and feel that the command to be perfect is no longer hard to obey. We may justify ourselves by faith in a great Friend...
...truly heroic life, is there not something more than human? We can estimate pleasure, but who can say how much it is one's duty to do this or that? The difference between truth and falsehood is immeasurable; one can't take an intermediate stand. A mother's love is limitless; it gives all and lasts forever. Was there not a divine element in the death of Sydney Carleton, and though but fiction, what a lesson it should teach us! Should we not in our lives include divine elements? Emerson well phrased it in the following aphorisom: "Don't leave...
...time of Elizabeth, when the passion for the drama was very marked that the Scotchman Ben Jonson came forward. After his father's death his mother married again. This stepfather sent Jonson to Westminster school, where he studied to great advantage. Rumor says that he afterward went to Cambridge, and was expelled, but the fact remains that when he should have been studying he was off to the army. In 1597 he returned to London, but he always retained a certain coarseness of the soldier. At the age of twenty he married and to support his wife found his life...